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		<title>Desert Code Camp Recap 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[code]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[#mce_temp_url#Just got back from this year&#8217;s Desert Code Camp at Devry in Phoenix.  Overall the event was pretty good, got to meet some new people that aren&#8217;t at the usual events and listen to topics that aren&#8217;t discussed as often.  It&#8217;s also nice to have an event strictly focused on coding since I don&#8217;t believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tracks for GTD</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just started using Tracks for my GTD system and I love it.
Tracks is an open source Ruby on Rails application for your GTD system.  You can either install the application on your own server or there are a few companies that provide hosting for Tracks.  I chose the self-hosted route which is pretty easy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Removing Google Chrome Extensions on Ubuntu</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: Just type &#8220;chrome://extensions&#8221; into the location bar and that brings up the extension manager
To remove Google Chrome extensions on Ubuntu you need to locate the profile for the current user and delete that extension folder.
Your Google Chrome profile on Ubuntu is stored in ~/.config/google-chrome
The &#8220;Default&#8221; folder most likely contains your profile information.  Within that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Stoic principles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just started reading letters from a stoic by seneca, great book. It is a collection of some of the letters that seneca wrote for his friends and leaders. He goes over some really great concepts with all of them relating or a part of Stoicisim.
What difference does it make how much there is laid away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Efficiency Tip: Open Nautilus From Terminal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gnome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mint]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nickhammond.com/?p=409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spend most of my time in the terminal when moving around directories and opening up files.  Sometimes though it&#8217;s nice to be able to quickly open up a visual browser to look at a bunch of pictures or quickly browse through a bunch of documents from your current location within the terminal.
Edit your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piwik – open source web analytics with plugins &amp; API</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was looking for alternatives to Google Analytics, just cause. Google does a great job at providing a vast amount of information about your visitors, sometimes it&#8217;s just nice to see what&#8217;s on the other side.
I stumbled across Piwik, an open source web analytics program.  Piwik is a self-hosted solution which gives you full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s good livin’ in the valley, no not Silicon valley</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While some people feel the need to move out to California to experience the tech life and surround themselves with nerds and VC&#8217;s it&#8217;s good to know there&#8217;s a lot going on here in Phoenix.
More specifically Geek Week is coming up in November which is a week and a half long of events.  The calendar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow alt-tab in Linux Mint(Ubuntu) with Gnome fix</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nickhammond.com/?p=383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m Extremely happy with Linux Mint just a couple last things that I needed to fix that were bugging me and finally got to the
bottom of them tonight.
My biggest problem was with alt-tab and I was having problems with it not appearing immediately. Every time I went into alt-tab to switch windows it would take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordpress empty shell with plugins for an even faster wordpress setup</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickhammond/~3/jLw5aPPH62g/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nickhammond.com/2009/09/03/wordpress-empty-shell-with-plugins-for-an-even-faster-wordpress-setup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[git]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nickhammond.com/?p=371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wordpress already has the easiest installation process out there.
The part that only takes a little bit of time is getting all of the plugins you want installed. I noticed that I was typically using the same plugins so why not reuse that work and put it into a git repository.  That way whenever I need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe Preparation Tips for Backpackers</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickhammond/~3/IsFYMaikFas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[eurotrip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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No Power Converter. Don&#8217;t buy a power transformer unless you need a hair dryer, your laptop and regular electronics will work fine. You will need a plug converter though, the European one will work fine for most of Europe. In Italy they use a slightly modified version but depending on the plug most of them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Su.pr’s construction page – go outside and play</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Su.pr took a page from the Wii book with their construction page.  Not sure what new features they are rolling out, hopefully the ability to edit and delete scheduled posts since that currently doesn&#8217;t exist.

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		<title>Jaiku eaten by twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deleted my account at Jaiku today and got this as their 404 page.

Jaiku is now open source available over on Google Code as JaikuEngine
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